Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World Very Semi-Serious Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham Sunday, April 10, 2016 This weekend’s late-spring freeze turned attendees of the nineteenth annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival into puffy little cotton balls, their down jackets swishing together in tight theater aisles, making the cinemas feel even fuller […]
Tina Haver Currin
Bio: Tina Haver Currin lives in Raleigh, where she works as a copywriter for film and TV. Her essay "Go Pack" appears in the new anthology 27 Views of Raleigh.
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A New Organization Awkwardly Honors Raleigh Women in the Kitchen
On a sunny Wednesday evening last week, after the traditional workday had ended, a crowd of about twenty five gathered to honor, as the program put it, the “brightest and most accomplished women” in Raleigh’s culinary community. Presented by the new organization Raleigh Works Here, the event was tied to Women’s History Month. It was, […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Five Full Frame Films Measure the Line Between Being Nature’s Caretakers and Inhabitants
Documentaries, with their insistence on critical thinking, often feel profoundly human. Yet several films at Full Frame this year delve into the complex beauty of wildlife, instead, using animals as mirrors for society and measuring up the arbitrary line we’ve drawn between being nature’s caretakers and inhabitants. THE ART OF FLYING (April 7, 1:30 p.m.)The […]
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The New Raleigh Restaurant A Place at the Table Will Offer Pay-What-You-Can Meals
In flash mobs, groups of people assemble, perform an unusual act for a short period of time, and then disperse. At one point, they seemed to be the new normal for the New Millennium. The phrase was coined in 2003, after technology paved the way for quick connection among thousands of strangers. But as the […]
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All Next Week, Celebrate Escazu’s Eighth Birthday in Raleigh
Escazu has made its signature bean-to-bar chocolates, meticulous truffles, and delightful push-pops on Blount Street since March 16, 2010. The chocolatier originally opened February 7, 2008, on Glenwood Avenue, but because that birthday falls in the middle of the Valentine’s Day craze, Escazu instead celebrates its reopening date. For Escazu’s eighth birth/reopening day, the chocolatier […]
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Trophy’s New Horchata Stout is the Brewery’s Best Beer Yet
Trophy Brewing Co. 827 W. Morgan St., Raleigh 656 Maywood Ave., Raleigh When Trophy Brewing opened its second location outside of downtown Raleigh late last year, the large new production brewery promised big things to come. While the first location had perfected creative pizza, the output of the three-barrel nanobrewery had always been serviceable, rarely […]
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In Pieces: Getting Misty with a Lachrymose Garth Brooks at His Raleigh Press Conference
When Garth Brooks went on tour in the booming nineties, there was no wave of cell-phone photography to greet him from the other side of the stage. There was no Taylor Swift, so Brooks was the pop-country crossover master who pissed off the most purists. There was no President Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton was the […]
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Can MATI, an Energy-Drink Start-up Based in Durham, Transform a Multibillion-Dollar Industry—And Make it Healthy?
Tatiana Birgisson still gets excited about the prospect of free pizza. Sitting in her small square office in Durham, the twenty-six-year-old Duke graduate has recently returned from a luncheon hosted by American Underground, the downtown start-up incubator. She listened to some speakers and ate free food from a spread overflowing with rosemary potatoes, macaroni and […]
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For a Week, I Got All My Caffeine From MATI. I Got a Lot Done, Too.
It’s 7:50 a.m. on a Monday. I’m the first person to arrive at my office, which means I’m responsible for brewing the coffee that fills our giant carafe. But not today: for the next week, I’ll swap my black coffee for a can of MATI. It’s a semisweet, healthier take on an energy drink that […]
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Citizen Award: Shana Overdorf Thinks Wake County Can End Homelessness
In late 2013, it seemed like the grappling over feeding the homeless in Moore Square would never end. Volunteers who came to the park on Saturdays and Sundays for years were threatened with arrest for distributing coffee and biscuits to the hungry. The sudden enforcement of a fourteen-year-old ordinance prohibiting food distribution in public parks […]